Not exact matches
Joint lead author Professor Manfred Kayser
from Erasmus MC said: «Besides substantially increasing our understanding of human
pigmentation genetics in general, finding these new hair colour
genes is also important for further increasing the accuracy of hair colour prediction
from DNA traces in future forensic applications, which can help to find unknown perpetrators of crime.»
The researchers also looked at the
gene expression of skin cells
from people with psoriasis and found decreased expression of the
genes involved in
pigmentation signaling, correlated with increased amounts of IL - 17 and TNF.
From the European Commission Research & Innovation website: «Scientists identify
gene behind blood orange
pigmentation», Researchers in China, Italy and the United Kingdom have discovered what
gene is responsible for blood orange
pigmentation, and how it is controlled.
Instead, he receives his blue coloring
from a recessive
gene that forms a clump of color
pigmentation around the hair shaft and leaves the tip of the hair without color.
The researchers have shown that Synechococcus cyanobacteria — which use light to capture carbon dioxide
from the air and produce energy for the marine food chain — contain specific
genes which alters their
pigmentation depending on the type of light in which they float.